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Or that she's no longer being regularly hospitalized or even that it's the one medication she has found that allows her to live a relatively normal life.

She can grow it. And that means she can afford it.

The new regulations from the federal government, she explains through tears, would put an end to that.

The government claims the changes are in the best interests of people's health and safety.

The plan is to no longer allow people to grow marijuana in their homes, requiring people with marijuana prescriptions to buy their meds from an authorized producer.

The government is also aiming to reduce red tape by treating marijuana more like other medical narcotics by allowing doctors to sign a document similar to a prescription that can be use to buy the medication, rather than having annual licenses issued through Health Canada.

A press release states that the program has grown from less than 500 authorized users in 2002 to more than 26,000 today, resulting in unintended consequences for public health, safety and security by allowing people to produce it in their own homes.

In the press release, the president of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs states one in 22 grow operations, legal or not, catch fire, which is 24 times higher than the average home.

The $5 per gram Health Canada charges for people to buy from it is heavily subsidized, claims the government.

The plan is to have the new laws in place by March 31, 2014.

The public is able to comment on the plans until Feb. 28, 2013.

Part of what angers Ms Fleming is that legal medicinal marijuana users are regularly lumped in with criminals. She's confident that legal users are taking extra precautions to make their home safe.

She spent more than $30,000 on equipment for a facility to grow her marijuana in and do it safely. Soon that investment will have been a waste unless the government compensates people for having to buy grow equipment.

There's no government subsidies available to cover the medication costs, which she figures will steer people back toward opioids.

When she was taking 17 different medications, she says it was costing $30,000 a year. She was also seeing seven specialists, but now there's just one.

"I no longer cost society $50,000 a year," she states.

She knows she'll be sick for the rest of her life, but says she wants to live life to the fullest.

While she encourages better access to medicinal marijuana, she's worried the changes will actually make it more difficult. She says many doctors are already hesitant to prescribe medicinal marijuana which must then be approved by Health Canada. If all the responsibility is put on doctors, she worries they will be even more hesitant.

"I really don't think anybody thought about this," she says.

There are also other issues. There is more than one kind of marijuana.

The type that's most effective for Ms Fleming takes longer to mature and has a lower yield than other types, so she doubts a profit-driven company would grow it.

Ms Fleming also grows hers organically and uses every part of the plant.

She says the government should be thrilled people are growing their medication since it isn't subsidized.

She knows the system needs changes, especially since licensed users often have to wait months after their annual licences expire before new ones are issued by Health Canada and Ms Fleming says there's still a lot of stigma around its use.

She's hoping the new rules will have some changes before being brought in, but she says there's already a class-action lawsuit against the federal government in the works.